X1 connections? the bottleneck would be real.... does AMD cards run on x1? i know they do on x4... Nvidia don't go below 8x on their new cards if i remember correctly ( correct me if im wrong)

Would mining even work on x1? that is so pretty low bandwidth

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Even if they work on pci-express 1,0 @ 0.1X speed ie 25MB/sec it doesnt matter at all each card does internal calculations and uses dedicated video memory and when it's finished with another stupid block of data it just uploads it where it's supposed too so yeah.

The only reason you'd want a board layout like this is if each slot offered more bandwidth, and, so you don't have to build some weird chassis. But since they're all x1 slots, why not just use one of the competing boards that support more slots? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think this would fit in any full-tower chassis (to my recollection, full towers can "only" fit 5x dual-slot GPUs). That being said, if you can't fit this in a standard ATX chassis, why not just go for a competing miner's board?

I find it interesting how this board seems to be compatible with server PSUs, but the amount of power connectors seems woefully overkill. Cut out half of them and you'd still have way more than you'd ever need. But what I don't understand is if this doesn't use ATX PSUs and won't fit in an ATX case, why not just have a slot to mount a server PSU, rather than this complicated mess?

This whole board seems like an utter design failure, and it didn't have to be.

WowO......, so the GFX cards get stuck with a x2 interface off of that crappy/garbage CPU??? Just wondering if I am seeing this shtuff right.....

They can not be serious with this many cards and this limitation on PCI-e lanes......

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What do you mean by "that garbage CPU"? You do realize you can get good i7s on that socket, right? Anyway, for mining purposes, the specs are perfectly fine. As other have stated over and over, you only need PCIe x1 to do mining, and nobody does CPU mining, so something like a Pentium would likely be sufficient.

I think it should run with only 8 pci-e 6 pin connectors, I'm not sure why they put so many on there. They are essentially replacing the need for risers, which at $8-12 each (if you buy in bulk) do add up to a decent bit of savings. It also reduces the amount of components to troubleshoot, and since the most likely culprit if you are having issues tends to be those risers that right there makes this worth considering. Provided it does actually work of course.

I saw a similar mobo yesterday that had an integrated mobile CPU with a laptop style heatsink/fan already installed and a 4Gb So-DIMM too, I think they claimed it was only $100 or so for the whole thing, bought direct in China.... I imagine pricing would be allot higher in the US or EU of course.